. i'll ask my questions after senator kennedy. i'll come near the end. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. secretary, i understand the department is close to finalizing a memorandum of agreement with the city of gulfport regarding the rebuilding of the job corps center in gulfport, mississippi. can you update us on the status of that situation and share with the committee the estimated completion, if you know that, on the gulfport job corps center? >> mr. chairman, i appreciate the question. the department remains committed to serving the youth of the gulfport community. we appreciate the support you've offered as it's been important as we move forward. we're working with the consulting parties as we move forward on the memorandum of understanding. we anticipate that mou will be signed sometime this summer most likely, possibly within the next 60 days and it will be followed by the design and construction phase assume that the budget allows us to go forward. and if you would like, i'm more than happy to ensure the department keeps your staff up to date with the progress as those discussio

. >> officgovernor immediat-- >> my question is, it seems that we occasion lie read in the papers that a city or town or state's been attacked say by ransomeware. and then the next day you hear it in another state. my question is, i know, for example, the council of governors has been working on this, states have been working on this, nga's been working on this, but i would be interested in hearing the panel's opinion on, is there a better way for us to share information? it seems difficult when we have the federal government, the state's government, local government, then the private sector, you know, competing against one another. but if we had a opportunity to learn from one another, to warn one another about threats that have happened, it -- because if my state gets hacked and then two days later by the same scheme another state gets hacked, we have a opportunity, perhaps, to do a better job and share perhaps through a, you know, national alert system or something to prevent us from different states or communities or companies suffering the same sort of scheme. my first, maybe matt y

. it could be. i just do not know. yes, sir. >> i had heard from my parents the same thing -- that they in brushthat she lived city. i am 72 so this goes back. that she lived in russia city also. they were talking about the actual house that she had lived in. they had of them said met her later ron and she was so devastated by her experience that she just did not want to talk about that. that is what my grandmother was telling me. another question -- harper: the gentleman was talking about the possibility that she had lived in brush city, and area of east st. louis south of the south end. this.asked to repeat and she would not speak a bit later. as if she had blotted it from her mind. >> the other question i had -- we keep hearing different numbers. has anyone tried to really determine in research terms, just what the numbers were? you hear different figures. what i did was i did not go back to the corner. -- the coroner. because a lot of blacks were not included in the coroner's report. the congressional investigating committee came up with a figure of dirty nine blacks. that has

living in kansas city for about 20 years. one of my former colleagues from the kansas museum is here, too. i worked in topeka for six years at the state museum. also, i'm a former high school history teacher. if we can get past the accent, we've got some great questions lined up for our panelists. i'm glad they are the ones answering them and i get the easy job of asking the questions. so we aretorians, going to start looking at the history of the draft and how that came about. my first question, looking at the united states and the colonies that preceded it, the united states repeatedly faced the question of how best to assemble a necessary military force in a time of war or armed conflict. so why, i put to our panelists, did the wilson administration choose to implement the selective service system when the united states entered the first world war? dr. faulkner. i have a georgia accent. this is going to be a decisive break with american history. woodrow wilson is going to take this precipitous step to build this army for the first time in american history primarily on construction

i were city i'd probably derisk in that particular way, but my question is did anybody look at what money sicosa used to buy them out. you know, so i had a conversation with someone from a development bank who said essentially the entire banking sector in honduras looks like kabul bank or looks like the banking sector in afghanistan which is kabul bank was a pons gee scheme which the only ones that were actually solvent were the ones that were running opium money, right? it was the same kind of flow, it's just that it was drug money keeping them afloat. so the assessment is that's kind of what the banking sector looks like in honduras, but it's so systemic, it's, again, a kind of too big to fail. like what happens -- so this guy is doing, you know, economic analysis for the big international development bank and i asked him, well, how are you factoring in the dirty money? like how are you dealing in your economic forecast and all that kind of thing? and his answer was, i'm not, because you can't measure it. >> [ inaudible ]. >> not quite, but you can't measure the dirty stuff, you d

an unwillingness to grant reasonable access to polls or right-of-ways. in my home state of california, several cities require wireless providers to show gaps in service just to access the right-of-way. while one city is asking for excessive annual fees to access the right-of-ways. chairman pai, do these issues constitute okay stbstacles to broadband deployment? >> thank you, congresswoman. in many cases they just. if you're looking to build a wireless network, especially if you're a smaller competitor, you need to deploy that spectrum, and it can be an obstacle to you getting into the marketplace. >> what can the commission do to address these issues? >> part of it involves the authority granted to us by sections 233, 332, and to the extent possible, 6409 of the spectrum act. we're looking at different areas like that. also i've set up, as i mention earlier, an advisory committee, part of which is setting up model state and local codes for deployment that could address these issues. they will also tee up different barriers to entry like that to see if there are ways to work

or satellite provider. hi, my name is michael quine. president and ceo of the museum of the american revolution. i'm standing on the plaza of the museum at the corner of third and chestnut street in old city philadelphia, the headquarters of the revolution. this is where delegates came to protest against british oppression. this is where the declaration of independence was written, just 200 yards away at independence hall. this really is the most central element of the american revolution, the birth of our nation, which is why this museum is located here. just down the street from me is the first bank of the united states. that is alexander hamilton's branch bank when he launched our nation's banking system. it is also the first building constructed by the united states of america. we truly are where the nation began and it is the right place to tell the entire story of the american revolution, which is our mission in this museum. right behind me you will see cannons from the era. this is part of the city's collection. everyone is old enough that it could have been used to f

why my administration is launching a nationwide crackdown on sanctuary cities. american cities should be sanctuaries for law-abiding americans, for people that look up to the law, for people that respect the law, not for criminals and gang members that we want the hell out of our country. sanctuary cities legislation has passed the house, along with kate's law named for kate steinly who was brutally killed by a five-time deported illegal immigrant. we are asking the senate to vote on sanctuary cities and kate's law legislation. we got to get it passed. the trump administration has the backs of our i.c.e. officers, our border patrol agents. and yes, our great police officers. and we have their backs 100%. we are going to also protect them, like they protect us. this month in chicago there have been more than 2 homicide victims per day. what the hell is going on in chicago? better tell that mayor to get tough, because it's not working what they're doing. we are going to get criminals off our streets. and we are going to make america safe again. we also strongly believe that our b

person is indeed a fugitive or not. enough, hi, i'm a living in new york city. my question is relevant to kind of the south jersey new york city. i know this'll make sense. do you think the fugitive anti-fugitive legacy in south the current trends of criminality in law enforcement in the areas today? the question is about whether or not the legacy contributes to criminality? i'll put it this way, i think we can look at the underground railroad certainly from the antebellum period as a part of what would become the great migration from the 1870's and on word which radically transforms new jersey's black population. it amplifies it a lot, more people coming from the south. these underground railroad survivors are the first part of that. among white new jerseyans, a much greater rising about crime, a modern racism rather than the racism of slavery and anxiety caused by the treatment of blacks. i wouldn't say the people ,hemselves were inspiring crime i would say the concern about them and the rise of jim crow certainly is a reaction to the great migration. i don't think that is anything new.

and city of this great nation and the front porches of my house and many of yours waiting for their return. you state the obvious, thus far the resounding answer is yes. and it will now and forever wave, but only be holding on to it. because it's not the flag that we're waving, it's what lives within us. is it in our heart. do we really understand and mean what this museum is about to celebrate. and the heart of every american is the very idea of america. i don't even know it to articulate it that way. ask the average person when you leave here, go to lunch on the street corner, why do you have the right to do a, b, c or d. i'll tell you, because the constitution says i do and i've never even ever read the constitution. folks, this is important, not monument, but reminder that we've got to fight every damn day to remind ourselves how we got to where we are. and don't ever think that there's ever anything self executing about democracy. we live in this museum and every movement of every child who is going to walk through this door and the hand of parrot and believes that he or she ca

other city was my hometown of easton, pennsylvania. just to show everyone how history can still be alive today, the gentleman that read the declaration in our town square was named robert levers. every year, my fellow high school classmate also reads the declaration of independence and his name is also robert levers. it was his an zester that read the declaration. the other comment i have is people that visit the museum, i would hope would allow themselves time to look into the pozibility of having an ancestor in the revolution. i was able to find a captain john hart, a captain in revolution. he's an ancestor of mine. he's also buried in easton, pennsylvania. the last comment is that easton is the home of lafayette college. i wonder what type of exhibit you might have of lafayette in the museum. >> thank you. interesting trivia there. scott stephenson? >> thank you very much for that comment. i know easton very well, being a trout fisherman, the poconos are a weekend destination for me, often. we do tell a similar story of the declaration being read and disseminated through all of

independence was c first read in three citiec philadelphia, trenton, and the other city was my hometown of easton, pennsylvania. just to show everyone how history can stillll be alive today, the gentleman that read the declaration in our town square was named robert levers. every year my fellow high school classmates also reads the declaration of independence, and hisel name is also robert lever. it was hishe ancestor that read the declaration. the other comment is have is tht people when they visit the museum i would hope would allow themselves also time to look into the possibility of having e an ancestor in the revolution. i was able to find a captain john art, he was a captain in the revolution, and he's an ancestor of mine. he's also buried in easton, pennsylvania. the last comment is thatf easto isin the home of lafayette college, and i wondered what type of exhibit you might have for lafayette in the museum. thank you. >> thank you. an interesting trivia there.. dr. stevenson. >> thank you very muchch for th comment. i know easton very well, being a trout fisherman, the

. it's alive here in philly, it's everywhere. and it is my honor to be here for the opening of this gem in your city and in our country the museum of the american revolution. it's fantastic. [ applause ] >> yeah. long time coming. this next song is particularly relevant because of an exhibit inside this museum. as an actor, especially in a period play, you're always imagining your surroundings, what was it like, what did it sound like? were there doors? were there lights? so many little things. and i can't tell you how many hours i've spent imagining washington's command tent. it's inside this building. that tent, seeing it in person, it was so moving. it gave this next song new meaning for me. it takes place on the eve of the battle of yorktown, roughly 1781. david mccullough can correct me if i get anything wrong. and general washington was giving hamilton his first command and some sage advice. washington had the forethought to know that the actions they were taking were going to reverberate through history for hundreds if not thousands of years. he warned us of demagogues and gave s

, thank you. [ applause ] >> my name is [ inaudible ] i'm proud to represent the people of south and southeast baltimore city in the maryland house of delegates, the 46th legislative district, the fighting 46th. goes from butcher's hill to brooklyn, canton to curtis bay. if you haven't visited, you really should. that psa for live baltimore and visit baltimore. that's fine. they'll be happy with me now. [ laughter ] >> i -- this is my second term as a member of the house of delegates. in my day job on a state's attorney in anne arundel county, the city of annapolis and area north and south of there where i prosecute domestic violence cases and serious felony property crime. again, i got elected in 2010, which was a pretty incredible time in maryland on this issue. actually at that point, suffered some setbacks but we could start to see the way forward. in 2006 two incredible people who i consider great friends and have been incredible advocates on this ish 145sue in the state maryland -- -- were courageous, some of the courageous people who stepped forward in maryland to try and have

political parties. my round tables throughout the second district of oregon, it didn't matter if i was in a rural committee or a more populated city, the stories were similar. we all know someone who was impacted by this epidemic. in my state more people die from drug overdoses than from automobile accidents. that's not unique. according to data analysis drug overdose deaths in 2016 likely exceeded 59,000 people. that's the largest annual jump ever recorded in the united states. and what's worse, some of the preliminary numbers from the states indicate that their numbers within the first six months of this year are already surpassing last year's total numbers, and over the past seven years opioid addiction diagnoses are up nearly 500% according to recent report. despite a report released by the cdc last week which indicates the number of opioid prescriptions has decreased over the last five years, that's the good news, the rates are still three times as high as they were just back in 1999. and the amount of opioids prescribed in 2015 was enough for every american to be medicated around th

. i spent the last several years sitting as a city council member where i had an oil company that wanted to come in to my town to drill 34 oil injection wells on land and out into the santa monica bay. i have seen time and time again where big oil tries to come in and take over urban areas and take over areas that are just causing more environmental pollution. we read about spills happening all the time, whether they're on land or off-shore. i was very disturbed to hear that the president wanted to open up the coastlines again to drilling. i think today we've heard i would say an assault on our federal lands. sometimes i take a look at this stuff and i think that this administration's talking points are coming right out of big oil. one of the things i'm hearing about is something called energy dominance. mr. squelchy, did i say that right? they talked a lot about this. can you explain what that means? do you think it is something we should strive for on our public lands? >> so, it is an interesting question. i don't know that i can answer what exactly an energy dominance means, bu

alaska, california, colorado, maine, mast, over, washington state and washington, d.c. my question for mr. baum is if d.c. -- if the district of columbia could tax and regulate marijuana, would that have the effect of at least partially undermining the illegal marketplace for marijuana in this city? >> well, i thank you congresswoman for the question. i have to say, i'm a federal official. marijuana is a schedule one illegal substance in the country -- >> i understand that and i have very limited time. i'm trying to find cause and effect. you've seen what's happened in the other eight states, and i'm simply asking if you make it legal, if everybody is using it anyway as is surely the case for younger people, would that make it less likely thaw go to an underground pedal her. >> ma'am, respectfully, i don't believe that. it's a harmful substance. just because it's not killing people the way fentanyl dooish. >> i'm talking about how you buy it, sir. >> yeah. everyone isn't using it. and we have our -- i'm concerned about young people in this country, and -- >> let me ask you this. if you're

issued grants to pay for it to be used by law enforcement. the city of virginia beach has used it now and they have had over 60 deployments to save lives in that community. now, our requests. i came into this job with a mandate for my 11 public safety agencies that we would rely on data driven decision makes. if we are going to wrap our arms around this epidemic and reverse the upward trends, we need to know what the problems are, where they are and what is working. to do that, we need good data. here are some of the identified needs that congress and the administration can help us address. craft limited exceptions to current regulatory and statutory barriers under hipaa, the substance abuse privacy protections. for example, we are prohibited from accessing any data from our methadone clinics. we need to know how they work and who they are providing care for and how it is working. provide technical assistance or fund staff positions for states in localities in developing metrics sharing data and analyzing results. support development of seas consistent metrics and mandate data collect

. my round tables throughout the second district of oregon, it didn't matter if i was in a rural committee or a more populated city, the stories were similar. we all know someone who was impacted by this epidemic. in my state more people die from drug overdoses than from automobile accidents. that's not unique. according to data analysis drug overdose deaths in 2016 likely exceeded 59,000 people. that's the largest annual jump ever recorded in the united states. and what's worse, some of the preliminary numbers from the states indicate that their numbers within the first six months of this year are already surpassing last year's total numbers, and over the past seven years opioid addiction diagnoses are up nearly 500% according to recent report. despite a report released by the cdc last week which indicates the number of opioid prescriptions has decreased over the last five years, that's the good news, the rates are still three times as high as they were just back in 1999. and the amount of opioids prescribed in 2015 was enough for every american to be medicated around the clock